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Who it fits
- Agent web search — pick one of Tavily / Exa / Brave.
- Terminal-first engineers who live in the shell and git
- Builders who start in the browser without a local IDE setup
Pros
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Cons
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Facts
- Locality:
- Cloud-native
- Surfaces:
- CLI, Web
- Maturity:
- General availability
- MCP:
- Model Context Protocol support
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